Any hardware running Android is broken by definition, giving you no chance of having a full product experience and no ability to take full advantage of any cool features your hardware does have. That makes every Samsung smartphone and tablet an inadvisable buy, even before you get into the misleading specs on devices like the Galaxy S III which are designed to sound like they're on par with the iPhone but are actually far behind and second rate despite having the same price tag as an iPhone. Android is for, in a word, suckers.

Of course Amazon wanted to win as well, so it stuffed a fragment of the Android software onto cheap hardware which can't run it right, and the resulting "Kindle Fire" is quite possibly the worst major tech product ever made.

RexTalionis:Any hardware running Android is broken by definition, giving you no chance of having a full product experience and no ability to take full advantage of any cool features your hardware does have. That makes every Samsung smartphone and tablet an inadvisable buy, even before you get into the misleading specs on devices like the Galaxy S III which are designed to sound like they're on par with the iPhone but are actually far behind and second rate despite having the same price tag as an iPhone. Android is for, in a word, suckers.

Okay, this guy has to be trolling.

Yeah I thought that the before the first ad break, I actually started thinking, is this from the onion?

Android is more stable than iOS at this time but of course if you put an new os on an old device then its not going to perform as well, just like my old iPhone 3G ran like shiat after a few updates when the 4 came out.

Trolly writer does a good job, he can expect a flood of emails calling out his apple worship, especially since all the devices people are looking forward to buying are not apples.

Electronic brand association has replaced for many the touchstone of identity that was once provided by nationality, race, or religion.

It's a whacky prediction, but it isn't impossible that in the future there will be hate crimes perpetrated not on the basis of sexuality, race, or religion - but instead on loyalty to a particular brand.

But the truth is you only think you're happy with Android because you've never used a legitimate smartphone like the iPhone and you don't know what the experience is supposed to be, and if I'm going to be of any value to you then it's going to be through telling you the truth about tech whether it's what you want to hear in the moment or not. The odds are you'll thank me in the end, after you've ultimately figured out what I've already spent years learning the hard way, and it's okay if you're mad at me in the mean time.

I ditched iphone and the entire Apple suite for Android, and I couldn't be happier.

But he laid out at the beginning of the article that he isn't an Apple propagandist, so I guess this is legit.

But the truth is you only think you're happy with Android because you've never used a legitimate smartphone like the iPhone and you don't know what the experience is supposed to be, and if I'm going to be of any value to you then it's going to be through telling you the truth about tech whether it's what you want to hear in the moment or not. The odds are you'll thank me in the end, after you've ultimately figured out what I've already spent years learning the hard way, and it's okay if you're mad at me in the mean time.

I ditched iphone and the entire Apple suite for Android, and I couldn't be happier.

But he laid out at the beginning of the article that he isn't an Apple propagandist, so I guess this is legit.

I like how he makes the headline claim that the only products worth recommending in 2013 are Apple's... Which is interesting, seeing as how Apple hasn't announced any products for 2013.

FTA: Any hardware running Android is broken by definition, giving you no chance of having a full product experience and no ability to take full advantage of any cool features your hardware does have.

If you ask the Apple people, a "full smartphone experience" apparently resorts to dozens or hundreds of stupid hacks and kludgy workarounds because human beings are just way too stupid to be trusted with an exposed filesystem. Every time I have to figure out how to do something non-obvious with an ithing, the instructions start "Get a Dropbox account..."

RexTalionis:Any hardware running Android is broken by definition, giving you no chance of having a full product experience and no ability to take full advantage of any cool features your hardware does have. That makes every Samsung smartphone and tablet an inadvisable buy, even before you get into the misleading specs on devices like the Galaxy S III which are designed to sound like they're on par with the iPhone but are actually far behind and second rate despite having the same price tag as an iPhone. Android is for, in a word, suckers.

Okay, this guy has to be trolling.

72% of the world's smart phones run Android. this dude is in denial big time.

narkor:It's a whacky prediction, but it isn't impossible that in the future there will be hate crimes perpetrated not on the basis of sexuality, race, or religion - but instead on loyalty to a particular brand.

I'm pretty sure Cory Doctorow, Warren Ellis and/or Charles Stross is already working on some kind of science fiction with precisely that as its central point.

s2s2s2:I have a friend that admits he has an irrational hate of Apple. At least he can admit it.

I don't have an irrational hate of Apple. I've got an iPhone hooked to my belt right now. I just see how far iPhones have fallen behind to Android Jelly Bean since the iPhone's UI is essentially locked in 2007.

That makes every Samsung smartphone and tablet an inadvisable buy, even before you get into the misleading specs on devices like the Galaxy S III which are designed to sound like they're on par with the iPhone but are actually far behind and second rate despite having the same price tag as an iPhone.

As someone who replaced an iPhone4 with a GS III, I simply have to call bullshiat. But it won't do any good...

You can't reason with people who are so deeply invested in their brand loyalty. It's a curious, almost cult-like mentality. I used to joke that rabid fans took one too many sips of the kool-aid but it's deeper than that. It's as if the brand becomes a part of their personal identity. Whether they're tech geeks arguing about Apple or Linux or, back in the day, Amigas. Or Chevy vs Ford fans. (Or even Democrats vs Republicans)...It's the same mindset.

narkor:Electronic brand association has replaced for many the touchstone of identity that was once provided by nationality, race, or religion.

It's a whacky prediction, but it isn't impossible that in the future there will be hate crimes perpetrated not on the basis of sexuality, race, or religion - but instead on loyalty to a particular brand.

You are way behind the curve on this. This is more like how persons are identified by their clothing. And yes, there are people being attacked for not wearing the right brand of clothing.

s2s2s2:I have a friend that admits he has an irrational hate of Apple. At least he can admit it.

Now if apple people could admit that they just have an irrational hatred for all things non-apple, everyone else sees it but nobody admits it. I have a couple of acquaintances who will invariably say "yeah but its no Mac, iphone, iPod, etc...." no matter what the device is or what market its supposed to fill.

RexTalionis:I don't have an irrational hate of Apple. I've got an iPhone hooked to my belt right now. I just see how far iPhones have fallen behind to Android Jelly Bean since the iPhone's UI is essentially locked in 2007.

Do I know you? I mean, my default setting for all farkers IS "Friend", but ok. I have no problem with your problems with iPhone.

steamingpile:Now if apple people could admit that they just have an irrational hatred for all things non-apple

A lot of them do. I don't hate non-apple stuff, and I find android fanbois' hate far more entertaining than the Apple fanbois' hate.

Apple ("You don't need that."):Hiding complexity to the point where it actually hinders capability (see the new Airport utility).Developing ecosystems on IOS that don't integrate with OSX (podcasts, ibooks);

Google ("Oooo, shiny!"):Releasing interesting technology without really refining the product.Lack of focus on continuing to develop products after the initial release.

Microsoft ("Anyone know what our other teams are doing? No?"):Products do not play well together.Killing products with little or no warning (Silverlight, Zune, Kin)

s2s2s2:RexTalionis: I don't have an irrational hate of Apple. I've got an iPhone hooked to my belt right now. I just see how far iPhones have fallen behind to Android Jelly Bean since the iPhone's UI is essentially locked in 2007.

Do I know you? I mean, my default setting for all farkers IS "Friend", but ok. I have no problem with your problems with iPhone.

steamingpile: Now if apple people could admit that they just have an irrational hatred for all things non-apple

A lot of them do. I don't hate non-apple stuff, and I find android fanbois' hate far more entertaining than the Apple fanbois' hate.

You're insane, apple people always have to say how superior an apple products are, to even say its the reverse is living with your head up Jobs decomposing ass.

GameSprocket:Apple ("You don't need that."):Hiding complexity to the point where it actually hinders capability (see the new Airport utility).

OMG don't get me started on that!

My apple fanboy brother had me look at his network because after they switched internet providers nothing was working right. I go to look at his time machine router thing's settings and all I see is a pretty picture of the earth and great renderings of the different routers and extenders he had throughout his house, each with a little green or yellow dot next to them. If I clicked on edit it allowed me to do absolutely nothing.

This was nothing at all like the last time I tried to fix someone's apple router so after a quick google search (that I was able to do by turning my hacked android phone into a wireless hotspot) I installed the earlier version of the time machine software and then I could go in and turn on NAT and other things.

What do you know? It worked! I don't even understand what the point is of the other software besides being able to look at a pretty picture of your network.

Not like it's a major security flaw, or causes you to send a text to a completely wrong number.

I'll admit, the maps thing is pretty terrible, but let me know when Apple catches up to Android in total number of horrible performance/security flaws.

Funny I have had zero security issues along with none of the family that have android devices and none of our texts have gone anywhere except where they were supposed to, sounds more like a phone/carrier issue.

Most geeks hate Apple, you see. They actually like the wild west nature of Android where random software runs incorrectly on mismatched hardware, because they're tinkerers at heart and they want the challenge of getting in there and reprogramming the whole thing to their heart's content. What we call practical usability, they call "closed" and "evil."

Those who would trade freedom for usability deserve to be abused by Apple.